<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=552239" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Farewell To The Old Year, 1863</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Farewell, old year, 'the bourne' is near,<br>'Whence traveller ne'er returneth'-<br>Passing away from time for aye,<br>Thy life-light faintly burneth.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Farewell, old year, dark shapes of fear,<br>Grim spectres pale and gory,<br>Flitting around, with moaning sound,<br>Tell us thy sad war story.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Farewell, old year, we do not fear<br>Republic or Imperial-<br>If war inclined, they both shall find<br>We're rather tough material.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Farewell, old year, thy past career<br>Hath given both gloom and gladness;<br>Thou gave us peace, but no decrease<br>In human crime and madness.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Farewell, old year, the pall and bier<br>Thou saw us oft attending,<br>And heard oft-times the merry chimes<br>Of birth and wedlock blending.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Farewell, old year, a voice we hear,<br>How solemnly it falleth-<br>'All flesh is grass,' prepare to pass,<br>Ere long the Master calleth!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Farewell, old year, thy knell we hear<br>Through Time's dark arches sounding;<br>Wrapt in thy shroud, a dense, dark cloud<br>Thy solemn bier surrounding.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Farewell, old year, we still have cheer,<br>Though tinged with doubt and sorrow,<br>We leave thy urn and gladly turn<br>To give new year good morrow.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Janet+Hamilton">Janet Hamilton</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=552239" data-title="Farewell To The Old Year, 1863 de Janet Hamilton" data-description="Farewell, old year, 'the bourne' is near, 'Whence traveller ne'er returneth'- Passing away from time for aye, Thy life-light faintly burneth. Farewell, old year, dark shapes of fear, Grim spectres pale and gory, Flitting around, with moaning sou..."></div> </div> </div>

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